Embedded Files
PI: François Recanati
The last decade has seen the development of the mental file framework, according to which nondescriptive thoughts about particulars (so-called ‘singular thoughts’) involve mental files whose reference does not depend on category information to be found in the file but on certain environmental relations the obtaining of which triggers the opening of the file. The mental file framework has attracted considerable attention, but it currently faces what may be described as a foundational crisis: according to a recurrent piece of criticism, it fails to provide appropriate identity and persistence conditions for mental files. The aim of this project is to end the crisis by rethinking the foundations of the framework.
NEWS
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ERC project Mental Files: New Foundations
Internal workshop
25–26 November 2025, Collège de France, Salle 1
25 November
10:00 — Victor Tamburini, “Rational lock, similarity between thoughts, and communication”
10:30 — Discussion
11:00 — Coffee break
11:30 — Barbu Revencu, “Representations of geometric shapes have syntactic structure”
12:00 — Discussion
12:30 — Lunch
14:30 — Joulia Smortchkova, “Understanding first impressions with mental files”
15:00 — Discussion
15:30 — Sajed Tayebi, “File Individuation: Some Remarks on Dynamic Cases”
16:00 — Discussion
16:30 — Coffee break
17:00 — Romain Bourdoncle, “Misaligned Communication”
17:30 — Discussion
26 November
10:00 — Catherine Hochman, “Self-Files: One or Many?”
10:30 — Discussion
11:00 — Coffee break
11:30 — François Recanati, “The Origins of Open Texture”
12:00 — Discussion
12:30 — Lunch
14:30 — Michael Murez, “Polysemous Mental Files”
15:00 — Discussion
15:30 — Rory Harder, “Manifesting Mental Files in Copredication”
16:00 — Discussion
16:30 — Coffee break
17:00 — Kyle Landrum, “Elision, Disambiguation, and Pliant Distinctions”
17:30 — Discussion
Catherine Hochman joins our team as a postdoc
Catherine Hochman joins our team as a postdoc
We are delighted to announce that Catherine Hochman joined our team in October as a postdoctoral researcher, in a position shared with the CPJ 'Perception and its links with imagination and memory' at Université Grenoble Alpes.
Rory Harder joins our team as a postdoc
Rory Harder joins our team as a postdoc
We are delighted to announce that Rory Harder has joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher since September. Welcome, Rory!
Kyle Landrum joins our team as a postdoc
Kyle Landrum joins our team as a postdoc
We are delighted to announce that Kyle Landrum has joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher since June. Welcome, Kyle!
Symposium "Modes of presentation, Concepts & Mental Files", SoPhA, July 1st, 2025
Symposium "Modes of presentation, Concepts & Mental Files", SoPhA, July 1st, 2025
The ERC project is organizing a symposium on "Modes of presentation, Concepts & Mental Files" as part of the SoPhA Congress at Nantes University, on July 1st, 2025. The participants will be Santiago Echeverri, Michael Murez, Nicholas Shea, and François Recanati.
Special issue of Klesis on the work of François Recanati
Special issue of Klesis on the work of François Recanati
A special issue of the journal Klēsis devoted to the work of François Recanati, edited by Louis Rouillé, has just been published. It features contributions from François Recanati himself, project members Gregory Bochner and Michael Murez, and several others (in French and in English). The entire issue is available in open access on the journal's website.
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